We Must Teach Students to Fail Well

By Leah Blatt Glasser

A poster titled "Freshman Counseling" hangs on the wall in the
least conspicuous corner of my office. I inherited it from my
predecessor as she gleefully departed. The image, in
dungeon-and-dragon style, is daunting.

A tall guard, perhaps the executioner himself, stands masked and
towering above a meek first-year student. The guard holds the end
of a long chain around the student's neck; on the other side of the
desk sits the homely and obese dean in hooded medieval garb,
hunched